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This choice of vocabulary it appears to me is not fortuitous. One could just as well ask why Mr. Farber makes to mention of "decolonization," "national liberation," or "armed struggle" to describe the actions of the MPLA in Angola or FRELIMO is Mozambique. Why, for instance, are we told so much about the "corporate managers" of Gulf (e.g., the portrayal of Ambassador Vasco Garin). and almost nothing about the "revolutionary leadership" of the MPLA? Obviously, Mr. Farber has chosen his own language for telling us about the situation in Portuguese Africa, and that language is not strikingly different from...
Finally, at the end of Mr. Farber's report, there is the passing assertion, attributed to the critics of divestment but truly of his own making, that there are parallels between the social injustices in Southern Africa, and "racism in Uganda, genocide in Burundi, Pygmy slavery in the Central African Republic, and other manifestations of tyranny worldwide." Mr. Farber introduces this comparison there are no possibilities of political and ethical choice, and that the question of corporate investment is an all or none game...
...even raise the comparison without detailed discussion as Mr. Farber has done, it appears to me is the grossest of rhetorical tricks and an almost total retreat from the types of social and historical analysis which a university should be all about. Such a comparison raises the issue of ultra-colonialism in Angola to the status of a natural phenomenon, obscures the reasons for bloodshed in places like Burundi and Uganda and contrasted with Portuguese Africa, and conveniently gets rid of white racism, responsibility, and guilt Further, the comparison is even more invidious given Mr. Farber's own failure...
...conclusion, I tend to agree with Mr. Farber that Harvard's primary responsibility as concerns Africa should be the educational one of public clarification. Before this can occur, however, it is obvious that we would need a financial cleaning up of our own house, a redistribution of power in the direction of the black members of our own community and a radical break from the dangerous premises that are so deeply rooted in his own report...
...Farber, there is a political and ethical choice. Shelton H. Davis, Lecturer on Social Antropology